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Topic: Freddy's Nightmares - some of the most bizzare stuff that went on

I was watching some of the main documentary of Never Sleep Again of the DVD I got up to the Welcome to Prime Time talk about the Freddy's Nightmares tv show.

Holy crap I never knew how bizzare some of the episodes got and how gory they got to be such as Freddy coming out of a guy's stomach where the guy is kind of naked in bed where he was trying to get it on with a woman. The director who did that episode of Freddy's Nightmares they must have seen the Nightmare on Elm Street 2 movie way too much or something lol.

Back then I missed out on all of the episodes except a few such as the weird threesome cannibals and the weird Mime/Robber guy

Re: Freddy's Nightmares - some of the most bizzare stuff that went on

Its been so long since I've seen these shows I have very little memory of them. When they came out I was a kid at the height if my Freddy craze, and I was absolutely ecstatic.

I do remember TV Guide (pretty sure it was) did an article about the series, basically (from what I remember) slamming it for its gore. I do remember, that the article made a sarcastic point that you had to have a drivers license to be killed on the series...meaning, the show boasted it wouldn't kill kids. The article's point was that wasn't a great standard to brag about. I was such a nerd I actually wrote a response to that (remember when we had paper / pens / mail ) ripping apart the article, and mailed it in. Got a response...funny, I shoulda kept it.

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I realise I'm breaking the rules here but the only torrent I have ever been able to find is an horrible 79th gen (!) VHSRip, which, although is complete is like watching a video with the tracking set to eleven. It's utterly unwatchable. If anyone knows of a better quality torrent then please please please please drop me a private message.

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I don't recall seeing show. Read somewhere that there was a commercial that ran with the show for a 1-900 number to talk to "Freddy" or something. Part of the commercial was "Kids, get your permission first!" Now that sounds bizarre.

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Yeah, I wasn't sure, it's just that the one I pirated is a terrible migraine-inducing TVRip which hurts my eyes. It's pixelated and cloudy and totally the sort of image quality that would make you long for the days when these were actually released in local video shops. The one video cover that always sticks out in my memory is the one where Freddy has a glove where the knives are syringe needles and he's dressed like a surgeon. Even though they were released on video over here I have no idea whether they were complete or what?

Anyone know if this series was ever made into a dvd box set or have they all just vanished into thin air?

And when I say thin air, what I mean is a dusty shelf in some warehouse somewhere or another!

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Cheers mate, sadly that's the same download I grabbed ages ago which looked like shit. Thanks for trying Azzy. By all accounts the episodes are piss poor anyway so it's only my completist nature that impels me to see each and EVERY episode!!! Yeah, I have a bad case of OCD when it comes down to Freddy related stuff! If anyone on here did watch them on their original broadcast dates I'd be interested to hear your takes on them.

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^^^ For the most part it was just another rehash of Twilight Zone or Tales from the Darkside, except hosted by Freddy. A couple decent episodes here and there (especailly the one where a chick is decapitated running across the finish line at the end of a race) but otherwise, enh.

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I've got all 44 episodes that I transferred to dvd when Chiller aired them about 6 or 7 years ago. I actually put each episode on it's own disc to avoid compression problems. Right after I got them all Chiller started airing them again but in edited versions. I need to make up a set of these to trade with fans....